Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-19
Correspondence of the YOrkviIle Enquirer.
LETTER FROM UNION.

UNION, S. c., January 17.-The new year
found majority of the business men and
farmers in more crippled condition finan-
cially than they had anticipated. The cot
ton crop fell far short of expectations, oW-
ing much to the fact that late-made bolls,
although full grown in appearance, never
opened, so that fully one-third of the ex-
the yield been up to the most sanguine ex-
pectations, it would not have been within
one-third Of the crop raised in 1875. The
corn crop is as bad, or even worse, in some
localities, than in the remarkably dry sum-
mer of 1915.
The sales.days of December last and the
present month showed an alarming depre-
citation in the value of land. Some tracts
were sold to the highest bidder at $3.50 per
acre. The same land, five years ago, would
have brought 500 per acre, as the then owner
refused to take 500 per acre for it.
The foreclosure of chattel mortgages and
sale of personal property, shows clearly the
inability of small farmers to meet their
obligations for stock and material to con-
duct their little farms. This disastrous
to the West of large number of our color
ed brethren, and small farmers are having
great difficulty in procuring supplies under
lien for the present year, while there are
no endorsers among the money men.
Our citizens and farmers are being some
what governed by the signal flags now
floating.
The small grain crop has suffered consid-
erably by the recent freezes. A struggle for
life seems to be going on with the oats and
wheat sown in November.
We extend our.sincere congratulations to
Col. J. J. Waters on having taken his best
step in life. The matrimonial fever seems
to have been quite contagious in eastern
York, especially in and around Rock Hill.
The ENQUIRER presents most attrac-
tive appearance in the new feature of illus
trated serial stories. / have solicited sub
scriptions to this-no fattery-the best
country paper ever published in the State.
Several railroad projects are now being
agitated. Several townships have voted
from $4,000 to 200 each to the capital
stock of the Newberry, Glenn Springs and
Spartanburg; the Chester, Greenwood and
Abbeville; and the GaffaaGt~t City, Union
and Rutherford Railroads, the building of
which, we hope, is in the near future, as
railroad facilities are much needed by our
people. OCCASIONAL.
BUSINESS FAILURES.-Theb business fail
ures occurring throughout the country dur
ing the week ending last Friday, as report
ed to r. G. Dunn e. Co.. IS and Russell d Co.'S
mercantile agencies, number for the United
States 294 and for Canada %, a total of 323
against 300 the previous week. This is the
largest number of failures reported in any
week since January, 1856, but not larger
than is expected at this season. In the cor
responding week last year, ending January
Is, 1856, there were 332 failures reported.
The Southern States furnish 107 failures last
week, which is about double the average
expected from that quarter.
The following failures have been reported
in this State within the last few days j.
Robert Lupo, Monticello, Fairfield county;
liabilities $4,000. VIM. StringfelloW, gro
Ger, and Miles Hunter, confectioner, Ches-
ter. B. B. Owen, Orangeburg, assigned;
liabilities about 5000. w. f. Swareingen,
grocer, Lancaster. II. G. Perrin, druggist,
Abbeville; liabilities 50, 1896, nominal as
sets $3.50. The store of A. Frieslebin, one
of the leading dry goods merchants of Spar
tanburg, has been closed by the sheriff.
DEATH OF REV. G.. II. WILEY.-Rev. G.
H. Wiley, agent of the American Bible So
ciety for North and South Carolina, died at
his home in Winston, n. c., on the 11th
instant, after an illness of several weeks of
typhoid fever. DIR. Wiley was one of the
best known ministers in his State and in
his earlier years acquired much reputation
as q writer the most enduring of his works
of fictionbeing "Alamance" and "Utopia."
For several years previous to the war he was
State Superintendent of Public Education
for North Carolina, but since the war he
has devoted his work to the ministry and
the spread of the Bible through his agency
for the American Bible Society.